DHS orders federal agencies to purge DeepSeek; pirates rally to archive the weights
Promptmethus · x · 2026-10-20
The Department of Homeland Security is requiring all civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and any third-party services built on DeepSeek implementations, and to stop procuring them.
In response, PIRATE FACE launched a "Worth Rescuing" archive drive, listing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (765GB, MIT license) as the #1 model to preserve via magnet links, alongside Qwen3.5, GLM-5.3-Flash, Kimi-K3 and others, calling on users to seed the weights for posterity.
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